Olga Kuraeva, Improvisation
(music by Heinali – Sway, Sway)
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Authors reading picture books
So, I’m a children’s librarian. I’ve been one for 6 years. I didn’t start out as one, but life has a funny way of putting you where you need to be.
My library mostly has toddlers and slightly older kids. So I don’t read too much juvenile fiction. But I devour picture books.
Here are a few awesome picture book authors reading their books for your afternoon moment of Zen.
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Eric Carle: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
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Jennifer Black: We Are One
The Guava Tree
Evening music break – Peter Gabriel
Sure, he’s not one of the cool kids any longer. But from the 70s to the 90s, Peter Gabriel was a force in music, bringing the sounds of different world musics into the pop arena. For your evening break, some of Mr. Gabriel’s music.
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Mercy Street
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Shaking the Tree
Afternoon music break – Diana Krall
For today’s music break, I present Mrs. Declan MacManus—the inestimable Diana Krall.
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Look of Love
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Let’s Fall in Love
Afternoon music break – Old skool electro
“Electro” is that weird, wonderful space where rap met Kraftwerk in the early 1980s. I remember listening to the Saturday night mastermix on WRKS in New York, and it was just one long electro remix. So for today’s afternoon music break, a bit of the electro funk.
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Newcleus – Jam On It
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Afrika Bambaata – Planet Rock
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Morning funnies – Some Monty Python
It’s Thursday. The week is almost over. Time to impose on you my obsession with the Pythons. Enjoy!
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Argument Clinic
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Confuse-a-Cat
Afternoon music break – Steely Dan
A bit of Fagen & Becker to break up your afternoon.
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Reelin’ in the Years (with a pre-scandal Bill Cosby introducing)
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Do It Again
Morning poetry readings
As I’m feeling my way through this regular blogging thing, I figured I’d have (semi)regular features. So this morning, a bit of the first art.
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T.S. Eliot – The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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Nikky Finney – Dancing with Strom
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